The Baltimore Orioles have been a mess for a while now. They have not had a winning record since 1997, a year in which they should have won the AL pennant. They are on their seventh manager since '97, and nobody has been able to tell the difference. Towards the end of 2010, Buck Showalter was given the reigns and seems firmly entrenched calling the shots. Now that the MacPhail magic has proven exhausted, Orioles owner Peter Angelos has done a smart thing: he has hired Dan Duquette.
